I've tried resetting the sync and it still comes to a screeching halt around block number 2.4m. I know about the attacks on Ethereum around those blocks, but this is ridiculous:
I've been syncing for ...

For the past several days I have been trying to transfer the blockchain data from an x86_64 machine to an armv7l machine, hoping that I could avoid having to sync from scratch on the latter.
However, ...

I have been unsuccessful in trying to sync a new wallet or mist. I deleted the blockchain data and started over and it seemed to be syncing quite fast again, was more than halfway done in a few hours. ...

I am new to ethereum and right now getting the ethereum blockchain using geth with syncmode=fast and cache=5120
It's been quite some time the sync being running (about 24 hours) and still the process ...

I am just unable to synchronise on any kind of network either main network , testnet and not even on private network.
I have updated my geth instance to a newer version - Geth/v1.5.9-stable-a07539fb/...

I am trying to connect a geth node to the network for several days with light sync, and I have encountered a lot of problems.
The last to date is there are a lot (like > 100) of error messages that ...

I'm syncing my geth client with ropsten testnet and just realized how slow is the syncing process after a certain block(trying to retrieve information from blocks that got in blockchain yesterday) for ...

I'm having issues syncing geth and parity as detailed in other posts. What would be ideal is if you could sync starting from the current block only as I dont really need historical blocks anyway.
Is ...

I am running geth node on a pretty robust server with lots of disk space, memory and processor (screenshot attached). Once geth fully syncs and I connect mist wallet to it it shows the latest blocks ...

I have been using the parity client to download the ethereum database for the last few days. Despite using the warp sync to download it, I havent been able to download the last few blocks fast enough. ...

I have seen other posts in reddit where users experienced slow sync times. I am using windows 10 and version 3.7 (I saw on gitter that other users on windows 10 had trouble with version 3.8 crashing). ...

I have downloaded the latest stable release of the ethereum wallet for windows. I installed everything and now I am just downloading. (I have repeated this process twice and the same issue has occured)...

I am planning to run a new full node, from scratch, using Parity.
From what I understand, it is imperative to use SSD disk(s) in order to do be able to do initial sync and keep up with the network.
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Currently chaindata size is more then 10.02 GB.
Is there any solution to reduce the size of stored data?
Is there a way to store particular database and keep entirely the functionality of client (e.g....

As the heading says, is it mandatory to do a full sync for token creation and contract deployment?
I have downloaded the etherelum wallet and geth, and right now it is syncing as I write this post. ...

Hello everyone i would like to sync to Ropsten test network for the first time.I use linux mint.First i followed the instruction here and execute the commands
sudo apt-get install software-properties-...

Let we have an ethereum node which is for a watch purposes only (it doesn't create any transactions, just updates it's replica of the whole chain).
To get notifications about top blocks in the chain ...

So far I've gotten these rather cryptic messages while syncing:
Imported new block headers
Imported new block receipts
Imported new state entries
Stalling state sync, dropping peer
What do they mean?...

I had been connecting to the ropsten testnet for the past couple months in geth with no issues, and able to quickly sync to the latest block. Now when I connect to ropsten as follows (as I've always ...

I've been syncing the ethereum blockchain for over a week now and it has stopped downloading blocks but continues to download structure. When I restart it, it resumes downloading blocks but will only ...

It is possible to limit the network usage of geth/parity while updating my node?
I want to be able to update (slowly, this doesn't matter), to reduce the strain on my network. Does anyone know a way ...

I'm a bit confused... I've created an Ethereum account in Ropsten, and have fed it some Ether (more than 20) via faucet.
Yesterday I synched my node with Ropsten and I could see the balance correctly,...

I really don't understand why it's so bad. I got geth light set up via terminal (because it was impossible to download blocks) by following the instructions in another thread and the blocks downloaded ...